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κόλπων (kolpon)

κόλπων is an Ancient Greek form of κόλπος, meaning “lap, bosom; gulf”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of κολπόω, “form into a swelling fold; make”.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.24: ἰάνθη· μετὰ δʼ ἥγε παλίσσυτος ἀθρόα κόλπων

All forms of κόλπος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.